Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, 2136 West Mall Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4.
Emotion. 2011 Dec;11(6):1379-87. doi: 10.1037/a0022902. Epub 2011 May 23.
This research examined the relative sexual attractiveness of individuals showing emotion expressions of happiness, pride, and shame compared with a neutral control. Across two studies using different images and samples ranging broadly in age (total N = 1041), a large gender difference emerged in the sexual attractiveness of happy displays: happiness was the most attractive female emotion expression, and one of the least attractive in males. In contrast, pride showed the reverse pattern; it was the most attractive male expression, and one of the least attractive in women. Shame displays were relatively attractive in both genders, and, among younger adult women viewers, male shame was more attractive than male happiness, and not substantially less than male pride. Effects were largely consistent with evolutionary and socio-cultural-norm accounts. Overall, this research provides the first evidence that distinct emotion expressions have divergent effects on sexual attractiveness, which vary by gender but largely hold across age.
本研究考察了个体展示快乐、骄傲和羞耻等情绪表情时相对于中性表情的相对性吸引力。在两项研究中，我们使用了不同的图片和样本，涵盖了广泛的年龄范围（总共 N=1041），研究结果显示出了显著的性别差异：快乐是最具吸引力的女性情绪表达，而在男性中则是最不具吸引力的情绪表达之一。相比之下，骄傲则呈现出相反的模式；它是最具吸引力的男性情绪表达，而在女性中则是最不具吸引力的情绪表达之一。羞耻表情在两性中都相对具有吸引力，并且在年轻成年女性观众中，男性的羞耻表情比男性的快乐表情更具吸引力，而且与男性的骄傲表情相比并没有明显减少。这些效应在很大程度上与进化和社会文化规范的解释一致。总的来说，本研究首次提供了证据，证明不同的情绪表达对性吸引力有不同的影响，这些影响因性别而异，但在很大程度上与年龄无关。
